NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue acknowledged Friday that negotiations between the league and the players union concerning a new collective-bargaining agreement were not going well. The current deal has two years left, but the salary cap will expire before the 2007 season and Tagliabue says he wants a new agreement by March, before the next free-agency period begins.
See "Commissioner Sees Rough Road Ahead for Collective-Bargaining Deal", Joe Lapointe, The New York Times, February 5, 2006